This book explores wide-ranging issues related to the (non)nativeness issue, providing a forum of reflection and discussion for L2 educators from all over the world. This volume echoes the long-silenced voices of NNS teachers articulating their own professional concerns and challenges. The discussion mainly focuses on recognizing and emphasizing the main strengths of both NS and NNS teachers as legitimate language professionals.
The field of second/foreign language teacher education is calling out for a coherent and comprehensive framework for teacher preparation in these times of accelerating economic, cultural, and educational globalization. Responding to this call, this book introduces a state-of-the-art model for developing prospective and practicing teachers into strategic thinkers, exploratory researchers, and transformative teachers. The model includes five modules: Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing (KARDS).
Developing Reading Power This unique supplemental series features high-interest stories from Highlights for Children magazine, followed by work sheets with proven strategies that match any curriculum and help develop the skills students need. Includes skills in recognizing the letters of the alphabet, word completion—using models; recognizing unknown words through pictures and/or context; rhyming words; how, where, when, who, and what; main idea through pictures.
Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Zizek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any other single author, his writings have constituted the most compelling evidence available for recognizing Jacques Lacan as the preemient philosopher of our time.
This overview of Poe criticism and the various guises in which he's appeared over the years is witty, adept, perceptive, and is full of critical views that are presented in a clear and precise manner. It's a joy to read, delightful, and you come away recognizing how easily we re-cast writers to fit our present images of them.
